this can only be a good sign.. my old congregation in liverpool has had a lot of money in it's bank account for years.
for a long, long time (almost 8 years) they've been looking for land to build a new hall.
the one they're in now is literally falling to bits.
respectful, is there any way you could tell us where the old KH was?
I think a lot of regular churchgoers are attracted by nice buildings in prestigious locations. Maybe a few JWs have a similar attitude to some KHs, although JWs would be loath to admit let alone pander to this view of the meetings.
i think trump is an absolute idiot.
his tactics, however, are undeniably effective.
thought i'd just put together a short list of some of the things he does.
Farage has never even managed to win a seat in UK parliament, never mind win election outright.
all exhibits for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower, have been released by the arc.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.
exhibit list.
joint statement of o'brien and spinks.
Yes that was it, thanks.
Amazing to think the lack of ethical awareness involved in drawing distinctions in that way.
voters are going to the polls in the netherlands in the first of three crucial eurozone elections this year.
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the voter turnout might set a new record.. what do you hope will be the result?.
Maybe the high tide mark for worldwide political insanity has already been reached.
The United States said: we'll see your Brexit and raise you a Trump.
And the rest of the world says: no thanks, we will fold.
i was raised in the religion and for the most part believed that my religion was truth.
i recognized some mistakes were occasionally made but felt that nobody is perfect.
then i smartened up and realized how dumb so many of the beliefs are....was there ever a time that you truly believed you had the "truth"?.
Yes I would say so, until about 1999, and then gradually less so.
all exhibits for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower, have been released by the arc.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.
exhibit list.
joint statement of o'brien and spinks.
Wasn't there an awful elders letter a few years ago that lumped this kind of porn together with gay porn as being the same gravity of sin? Totally ignoring that one is concesual and legal and the other is non consensual and illegal.
voters are going to the polls in the netherlands in the first of three crucial eurozone elections this year.
.
the voter turnout might set a new record.. what do you hope will be the result?.
Any exit polls or early results?
i think trump is an absolute idiot.
his tactics, however, are undeniably effective.
thought i'd just put together a short list of some of the things he does.
Apparently Trump's spokesman is now saying Trump didn't "literally" mean to say that Obama personally wire tapped him. This despite Trump's tweet calling Obama a "bad (or sick) guy" for wire tapping him.
You are right that Trump's tactics have worked really well for him, including outright lies. But his success with lies has bred an awful sense of complacency that he can get away with anything. I think he will become unstuck by his lies at some point. Fatigue is bound to set in as the public simply don't believe a word the president says, even his supporters. And he's no doubt broken many rules, which will come back to haunt him at some point,
All this assuming he doesn't start some terrible civilisation ending confrontation first of course.
sometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.
various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.
i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.
As I said in my OP "If the god of christian theism did exist a lot of simple things would just make more sense."
An ambiguous statement that I think could easily be taken the wrong way. (And apparently was by David Jay)
The easiest way to read the statement in isolation would be: the world would make more sense if we interpret it in the light of God's existence along the lines of Christian theism.
But in context it is clear you must mean something like: if the Christian God really eixisted then the world would be different in a number of ways so that many simple things would fit better with that version of reality.
jws re-name things so they seem like they are different than other religions.
(of course we know they are different but that's another story).
i was just thinking about those things where they are like most everyone else in christendom but the re-name it to seem different.. for example god forbid they have a church, it's a "kingdom hall".. they don't have pastors and deacons they have "elders" and "ministerial servants".. they don't have tithing but they will have family heads fill out a paper saying how much they can contribute on a monthly basis (not sure if there is a name for that...unless it's tithing.
Hymn - kingdom song
church - Kingdom Hall
New Testament - Christian Greek Scriptures
grace - undeserved kindness
God - Jehovah
service - meeting
sermon - talk
member/communicant - publisher
